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How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 10:00 PM

OpenAI is once again lifting the lid (just a crack) on its safety-testing processes. Last month the company shared the results of an investigation that looked at how often ChatGPT produced a harmful gender or racial stereotype based on a user’s name

Bird Flu Has Infected Two Young People. Here’s Why Experts Are Concerned

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 9:30 PM

Canada’s first human case of bird flu has left a teenager in critical condition as human infections continue to emerge in the western U.S.

Carolyn Beatrice Parker’s Work on the Manhattan Project Inspired Her Birthplace Generations Later

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 8:00 PM

This Black physicist’s work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death

First Rocks Returned from Moon’s Far Side Reveal Ancient Volcanic Activity

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 7:45 PM

Samples from the far side of the moon gathered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission record eons of tumultuous lunar history

When Did Human Ancestors Start Using Tools?

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 7:00 PM

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of clever hands and stone tools

The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 5:10 PM

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour

Genetic Genealogy Can Stop Violent Criminals and Free the Wrongly Convicted

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 4:00 PM

Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly convicted

China’s complicated role in climate change

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 3:00 PM

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. “Well, what about China?” This is a comment I get all the time on the topic of climate change, both in

Four ways to protect your art from AI

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 2:00 PM

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Since the start of the generative AI boom, artists have been worried about losing their livelihoods to AI tools. There have been plenty of examples of companies’ replacing human labor

AI can now create a replica of your personality

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 3:22 AM

Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your childhood, your formative memories, and your career to your thoughts on immigration policy. Not long after